Your Car Is Spying on You
By Jeff Somers – April 11, 2024 – Lifehacker
“If your car is relatively new, it’s been designed as a spying superstar -modern cars typically have microphones, cameras, and tons of sensors collecting data. But it’s not just the sensors built into the car itself – there are also all the apps installed on the car’s interface, plus all the apps installed on your phone, which you probably link to the car via Bluetooth, giving away all sorts of privacy in the process. That means car manufacturers can potentially know the music you listen to, things you say inside the car, and the locations you look up on map apps. We’re firehosing private information to a car maker; we just don’t think about it. In fact, some car manufacturers even admitted to tracking your sexual activity in relation to your car, along with health data.”
This article does have some ideas about what we can do about this unwanted car spying. Maybe we should just stay with really old dumb cars. I like my car with no touch screens and a push button AM FM Cassette radio that does not spy. For those of us that have smartphones, the website Privacy4Cars has both Apple and Android Free Apps to “Easily delete your Personal Information from vehicles you drove or connected to. Download the Privacy4Cars App for FREE” Check out their YouTube videos for an interesting education.
